The Sun. — London, England, 1818-09-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CRUELTY AND DESERTION OF A CHILD BY ITS PARENTS. iJNioN ALL.—Mr. anti Mrs. Atkinson were charged with cruelty to their child, a male infant, out six wvefts old, and with dropping it at the donr of Mr. Clark, at Bermondsey. Mrs. Jane, wife of Mr. George Stapleton, of 56, Nara;wick -street, Blackfriars-road, deposed, that 170 three months ago the prisoners Caine to her h(iase to lodge ; they gave their names as Atkin sari, and stated themselves to be man and wife, bad that they had been married about fifteen Ir:2baths. - On the morning of the 23d of July, Mrs. Atkinson was delivered' of a male child. Up to the time that she lay in, Mr. Atkinson, solo now calls himself Thomas Stevens, came to her horse every evening, and slept there; but gcnrrally rose at two o'clock in the morning ; he said he was in the Excise. The child was a very fine child. About five days after it was born, she observed Mr. Atkinson giving the child some red liquid; he said it was to compose it, as- it was very cross. The nurse was sent out at the time to buy some meat.. After this the child tell away and wasted. On Monday, the lith of August, the child was sent to Sarah Lewis, of Lowdell's court, Great Guilford-street, to nurse, and was brot.ght hack on Monday last, about 8 o'clock ; it was much better. About one o'clock on Mon day night last, the father and mother, and child, avert away from her house, and she had since learned that they slept at No. 111, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, where Mrs. A. went to wait upou some young Ladies. The child never came back to her house. Last Tuesday night, about eleven o'clock, Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson came to her house in a great flurry. Mr„Atkinson was in a fain• ing state ; at his request she. gave him sonic brandy, and he went to bed. She asked where the child was, and Mr. and Mrs. A. both an swered that they had taken it to its grandmother to nurse. Next morning, when Mr. Atkinson was out, she went into their apartment, and ob set ved all the child's linen on the bed. Mrs. At kinson threw her gown over the baby linen, as if she intended to conceal it from her. Mrs. Atkin son appeared very uneasy, and on Thursday morn she acknowledged to her that she did not know where her child was, but said her husband did. Mrs. Atkinson said she was very uneasy, aorl wished she could find a fortune-teller. She 'aving suspicion that the child Was made away with, went with Mrs. A. to seek a fortune-teller, in the hope of getting at the truth. They could nut find one ; and on their way home, Mrs. At kinson said that her husband would take the linen to the child that night. About eight o'clock that evening, Mr. Atkinson came home, and shortly after went out with Mrs. A. She desired her to say, if any person asked for her,, that she had left her l o dgings. Site desired the servant to fol low and watch them ; they observed the servant foil:ming them, and returned to her and abused r, anal were so exasperated that she expected they would have done her some bodily harm.— S! , e told them that she would never leave them tiil the child was produced. .Mr. Atkinson went st'A'ay on Thursday night at twelve o'clock ;' Atkinson slept at her house all night. Yesterday morning she went :to her bed-room, and told her that she should keep the doors fast, nntil she con fessed to her the circumstance of the child's ab sence ; she said she would after breakfast. Alter breakfast she went up stairs, Mrs. A. followed, and, b:iying fastened the door, she said " that on Tuesday night, about half-past nine o'clock, Mr. Atkinson procured a rush-basket, put the child into it, wrapped it up in a piece of new flannel, and put in it four napkins, one calico sleeping gown, and three caps." She asked Mrs. A. where the child was left, and she replied, " I was at a good distance from my husband ; but it was left opposite the workhoitse door at Bermondsey."— She farther said, " It was opposite the child's grandtather's (Mr. Atkinson, whose real name is Thomas Stevens, is son to Mr. Stevens, the mas ter of 13ermondsey workhouse) door," She had seen the child that day at Bermondsey work house, an d was sure it was the same that was born in her house. The child was baptized in her house by the minister of the parish, by the names of Malcolm Atkinson, son of 'Thomas Atkinson and Ann, his wife. She was one of the sponsors as god-mother to the said child. Maria, wife of Mr. R. Clarke, of Russell street, Bermondsey, stated, that on the night of Tuesday, between nine and ten o'clock, she dis covered a rush-basket (then produced) fastened to the front door by a string ; , on searching it she found the child site then held in her arms,, which appeared about six weeks old. Her house is op posite the workhouse. The child was wrapped in flannel ; there were four napkins and three caps in the basket; she took the child to the workhouse. Sarah Lewis, .of Lowdell's-court, Great Guil ford-street, deposed, that she nursed the child for three weeks at Mrs. Atkinson's house; at the end of the first week it took to sleeping, and wasted daily : she took the child to her own house (Mrs. Atkinson never suckled it), and kept it for a week; it during that time recovered and improved sur pris;ngly. Mr. A. during the time called twice, and expressed great surprise at the improvement of the child. They received the child back on Monday last., The child now produced is the same, but its appearance is much worse. Mr. B. Drew, solicitor and vestry clerk of the parish of Bermondsey, said, that the parish were determined to prosecute the prisoners, and he only requested the Magistrate to call upon them to give security to answer the charge at the Sessions. The Magistrate said, that the offence against the prisoners was one frequently cotninitted, bat seldom discovered, and he thought it his duty to do ell in his power to bring them to punishment, as art example to others. They were ordered to find bail or be committed. .PIPORTANT TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF WAR VILK-LANE. GUILDEPtLL.-It is well known to those who ppss through Wart-..ick-lane, that the nose is habit-. to tile most odious offence in consequence (if the slaughtering of beosts there, find that the .nd sometimes the atttliomay. are in 7 • . 4'ildated witb offal; blood, and filth; This nuis ance ►vatsbeen long a subject of private conversa tion, and was, until yesterday, confined to the animadversions of individuals. The respectable inhabitants who had the nerve to stand •to this time the continuance of these " bloody scenes," having, however, found that the slaughter-houses of Warwick-lane were contemplated, in a pecu liar manner, in NI r. Taylm's Bill, were deteru►in ed to avail themselves of the law ; and therefore iostructed Mr. Henry Nixon, who is employed under the Cotntt►issioners of Sewers, to remon strate with the carcass-butchers upon the subject, and show them the necessity of compliance. No attention having been paid to the frequent ad monitions of the officers, Mr. Nixon summoned several of the carcass-butchers to attend, to an swer upon informations laid upon various clauses of Mr. Taylor's Act. Thomas SaddlPr, carcass-butcher, 12, NVar wick lane, attended (won the first information. Mr. Aer.EY stated, that the subject was brought forward merely upon ptiblie grounds, and that the officer could have no reward whatever for the eel deuce he was to give. One conviction would therefore answer the purpose, and the fine should be the lowest possible. The officer swore that several beasts were, on the 1 lth of August, driven into Mr. Saddler's slaughter-house, and that soon after he saw great quantities of blood and filth flowing from that place down Warwick-lane. Upon the part of the defendant, it was sworn by I►is foreman, that the blood was an article of profit, and was always sold by the carcass butchers ; that the stuff flowing down the lane consisted merely of the washing of the slaughter house, and that the offal was always turned into a cesspool in the slaughter-house. The witness denied that time washing of the slaughter-house could be called filth, and declared that it was merely stained water. Mr. HARMen, upon the part of the defendant, submitted that this deposition altered the case materially, the Act having expressly mentioned blood and filth," and there being a, great dif ference between those and what flowed down Warwick-lane. Mr. ALLEY saitl, the defence would not do. He refused to cultic to any Compromise, for it was time that the stink should be put down. Mr. Crowder, of Warwick-square, and Deputy of the Ward of larringdon-within, confirmed the account of the general effect of the nuisance. He said that numbers of respectable prisons had been compelled to leave the neighbourhood in conse. quence of its violent influence upon their nerves, and that many, in coining to his counting-house, had slipped in the lane, - and been so bedaubed as to render it difficult to do business with them. Alderman Cox said, the nuisance was clearly proved. Ile reconunended to the Corporation, as an effectual mode of removing the nuisance, to remove the market. He also advised the carcass butchers to apply to the Court of Sewers, it being incumbent upon them, if the market was to he continued, to make a drain for the slaughter bouses.—The defendant was fined 40s. A MISTAKE ABOUT FORGED NOTES. A poor Irishman, named Dorroughty, was brought up on a charge of having passed a forged note. The complainant did not attend. The note was produced, and a person fron► the bank, at the time in the Office, declared it was ge nuine. _ _ _ Both the Magistrate (Alderman Cox) and the Solicitor of the flank were exceedingly indignant at this false charge; and it was instantly deter mined that the prisoner should have the most ample swtisfaction. The Officer declared, that he had himself said, upon taking the man into custody, that the note was go od. He would not have apprehended him had not a false address been given by him to those to whom he offered the note. Upon searching the prisoner, the Officer found another note upon him, which was also ge nuine. Alderman Cox.—lt is well for the complainant that be gave a take address, otherwise I certainly should hate prosecuted him, if the money was to come out of my own pocket. DISGRACEFUL SCENR.—Yesterday morning a young woman, apparently about 19, with an in fant in her arms, under a year old, both most re spectably dressed, was observed .in Westminster road, near Astley's Theatre, in a state of extreme intoxication. Several persons who saw her, and observed the danger in which the infant was front the incapability of the mother to protect it, en deavoured to take it from her. This, however, she resisted, abusing them for their interference, and accusing them of wishing to steal her child. At length site staggered against a house, and the little innocent's head coming in contact with the iron railing of the area, received sa deep a cut that the blood flowed profusely. She still, how ever, resisted the efforts of those who surround ed her to take the infant from her. Mr. Brooks, of Anglesea-house, Parliament-street, passing at the time, was attracted to the spot by the crowd, and observing the state of the woman and infant, forcibly took it from her, and delivered it to the care of a poor woman who keeps a fruit-stall near the spot, with directions that it should be taken to the workhouse. The mother he gave in charge to a constable, till she should he in a state to give some account of herself, and whence she came from. The new church of St. Andrew, at Calcutta, was opened for Divine Service on the 7;111 of March ; it is described as an elegant building. At the same time an interesting ceremony took place at the Cathedral, where no less than 350 young persons attendrd to be catechised previ ously to their being admitted to the right of con firmation. Mr. DUNCAN APNAB, at Lochardside, Aber foyle, has now in his possession a sword about four feet long, and a strong scabbard, which were found about the beginning of last month in a cave on the south side of the loch. They appear to be a considerable antiquity, and are of very curious workmanship. In -all likelihood they have lain there since the year' 1745. This cave was never buftue bend of by any of the ()Iciest inhabitants. GLOUCESTER ASSIZES, SEPT. 2. NISI PRIU S. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT V. THE INHABITANTS OF BA RTON-REGIS.--(SPECIAL JURY.) Mr. DAUNCP.Y opened this case. It was an action to recover upon the Act of Parliament 2001. of the hundred, in consequence of a barn and outhouse having been destroyed by a fire mali ciously raised, of which the perpetrator was not discovered. The value was greater than the sum allowed by the Act. Mr. Charles Abbot occupies some premises at Stapleton, the property of the Duke of Beaufort, to whom he is also bailiff of his collieries. On the morning of the 3d of May last, about I o'clock, the barn and out-house, and all the mows, were on fire. The fire-engines were brought from Bristol, three miles off, but the fire could not be extin guished.till the premises were consumed. The nearest dwelling-house was 300 yards from the barn and out-house ; there is no public road nearer than 200 yards. There was no thunder or light ning that night that he observed. The value of the barn and out-house was about 3001. He caus ed notices to be served upon several persons whom he named ; he went soon afterwards before a Ma gistrate and gave information. Cross-examined.—His farm is King's-wood lodge ; he holds no lease ; lie pays 2001. a year ; his premises were all insured, the stock at 10001. the buildings at 800/. ; he received from the In surance Company the amount of the damage done to these buildings, I SS/. ; these actions (there is another entered in witness's name) were brought by the Insurance Company ; to them he had tent his name ; the Duke of Beaufort does know of the action, and said it was a very proper thing ; the nearest coal-pit at work then was 500 or 600 yards of; he had ne,ver seen colliers going about there with lighted torches ; lie had quarrelled with the colliers; perhaps they disliked him as a new, comer ; they did not like his management ; he din not mean to say directly that it was done by them. _ _ ......... Re-examined.—The fire raged in several places at once ; the barn and all the mows were at once in a blaze. . . Henry Savary and Frederick Savary proved the serving of notices on the 3d of May, which were put in and read. Charles Latcliam proved the information to the Magistrate on the sth of May, which was put in and read. Ilesther James, who lived 200 yards from the barn, saw a light shining through her window ; she looked out and saw the barn on fire; she ran and told Mr. Abbot's servants that the barn and mow were on fire.; she met Mr; Abbot ; all went to the barn ; they found the barn, the out-house, and the mows on fire. She did not take five mi nutes, for she ran without her shoes on ; it wa3 a mild fine night ; she was ironing, and the mo ment the blaze came against the window she looked out. _ _ Mr. JERVIS now submitted that the plaintiff must be nonsuited. The Act was 9 Geo. 1. ch. 22. In section 8, it was required that notice should be given to some of the hundred by the party, or by their servants, within two days; in the declaration it was set forth, that notice had been served upon three; they had preyed only two. (His Lortfahip overruled the objection.)— Then there was another objection, which would be fatal ; the information was required expressly to be from the party or his servant, and Mr. Abbot was not a servant. (This too was over ruled.) Mr. CAMP ELL then objected, that the plaintiff sustained no tlamnification, since the Insurance Company had paid the loss sustained. Mr. Justice HoLanyo said, that he was aware that the Insurance Company could not bring an action, but the question was, whether any action was ever maintained where an Insurance Company had indemnified. He should take a note of the objection. Mr. JF,RVIS addressed the Jury. He contended that there was not evidence of the felony suffi cient to satisfy an action so ungracious as this. — Then, as to the damages, Mr. Abbot had received 1881. They would not, therefore, feel themselves called upon to give damages beyond the injury, although undoubtedly the landlord, as well as the tenant, was entitled to bring an action for 2001. James Green, a carpenter and builder, offered to rebuild the premises, at- an _estimate of (Here Mr. DAUNCEY ascertained that the witness was one of the hundred, and said, the only ques tion was, whether bone decessit or liceat migrare.) The witness was judged inadmissible. Hundred ers were admitted under the statute of Hue and Cry, but, through mere admission, this case was not included. Mr. DAUNCBY begged to read a passage from Serjeant Williams's book (a very grave authority) which he thought would serve his friend's object as to colliers carrying lights through the-place. An action was, under the statute of Hue and Cry, brought against the Hundred of Gravesend for a robbery on Gadshill. Mr. Serjeant Harris was of Counsel for the hundred, and contended that no action could lie, as Gadshill had been the scene of robberies and felonies time out of mind. Mr. Justice HOLROYD summed up the evidence. The feloniously setting fire to it was for them to find or not, according to the evidence. As to the amount of damages, the Duke of Beaufort was entitled to 2001. if they were satisfied of the felo ny, notwithstanding that the premises were in sured. ‘Vhether the Insurance Company could afterwards recover from the Duke, was a question between those parties. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages 1881. Mr. JERVIS consented to have a verdict for the plaintiff for 2001. in the next case, Abbot v. Inha bitants of Barton Regis. This was for the corn burnt. CROWN COURT. A great number of prisoners, for various of fences, were tried and convicted. The Court con tinued sitting from 8 o'clock in the morning till 8 at night, when all the county prisoners were tried; There remain only six city prisoners to be tried, upon various charges of theft. Henry Moreton, aged 20, was convicted of a burglary, and sentenced to death ; Thomas King, aged 22, was sentenced to death for stealing in a dWcllinti-hciusQ abgvc the vtittio of 4,95, - Maid James, aged 18, was condemned tQ death for !I miler offence; John Stone, aged 28, was condettir ed to death. for a similar offence ; Jacob CleFe. l i t s ; aged 28, was condemned to death for a sitst offence; William Smith, aged 23, was conden s %, ; to death for horse-stealing. No hope of !Ili"' Lion was held out. ATROCIOUS MONSTER.—The last trial of 1l; day W 35 that of an atrocious monster, in 4 shape of a man, named Thomas Davies, and 24. There were three indictments against 111 d for an assault on three girls, on the same dil Y ' g ' one aged three years, the other two, and the las five. He was tiled only on two. In the firs t stance he was convicted of a common a ssault/ 1 . the second of an assault with intent to co moll c , a rape. The scene of this unparalleled atroci l l was the garden of the Cross Keys, Cheltenholn: For the first offence he was sentenced to lrnP ri d' itsonment for 12 months ; for the second, for months more. lie was, besides, ordered to c• privately whipped on Saturday se'unight, an d 4 (. whipping was ordered to be a serious V lO meat. The enraged mother of one of the infants atst e • that she had been anxious to have hint tossed „ 111 , 10 blanket, or thrown into the horse-pond. 1. ruffian had knocked her down. sfas Mr. Baron GAtutow said, that her rage ;; most natural, but it should not be so ill-direc t ;• bad he been drowned in the horse-pond, sif would be answerable for murder. She Sa o ' n° o l that Courts of Justice could take cognizancesea • such brutal conduct. None could have kane k down a woman but the ru ffi an .who was caP" ho of assaulting an infant. •. PUGILISM EXTRAORMNARY.-Yesterday „ man, of gigantic strength and stature, was P"" ed with a severe drubbing, by a young G' 11 ,4-$ man in those respects greatly his infector. 'to Gentleman was turning out of Chancery• lav e i . 1 : 6 1 Fleet -street, in a gig drawn by a vey sP horse. The carman was passing at the tirne?, 3 ',. 6 purposely drove the dray so as not only to i n t l ., the gig, but to endanger the safety of the d rive o The young Gentleman remonstrated with his conduct, and was replied to by the most br , u io abuse, accompanied with a stroke of the It tf He had soon, however, cause to repent of t, ruffianly conduct, for, the Gentleman, disn3"ellll4 ing from his v(:!ticle, and giving his ho rs idli charge to a by-stander, soon gave his unsvello4 opponent so severe a drubbing, that be Ivo' S o l to cry oat for quarter, having been cong' e , be e deprived of his sight, and his countenance in 0 ,. respects bearing emple testimony to the nunldisl ment he had so deservedly received for his h t ßo d conduct.. He was placed on his own draP der the charge of conducting his horses was " 13 st taken by another drayman, who was passl n t ' , ill the time. The Gentleman drove off amids t t he cheers of the crowd, not having receive" slightest apparent injury n the rencontres _ _ _ 00' Tuesday night, or early on Wednesby, ing, the dwelling house of Mr. Smith, of court, Old Brompton, was broke open and r ° . to et of a large quantity of , linen, household fool rro s plate, & c. besides a remarkably beautiful e and a piping bullfinch. =a. ...,,,1., .------ J. • ' - .." - COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Fitt DAY, Sul'. 4 „; q 0 9 ' A easterdato '37 6 ''''' Ditto s at Sight 37 0 'c,i' 11 I ° Anisto data Ditto, at Sight , ll I e C!', ' a i Rotterdam ii 11 o Antwerp Li 1 4 coI ,) ; iti i, Harribnrgh .t 3 4 9 g i t) A g ltona „„ di, Paris, 3 Day's sight 24 .- i- Ditto ef Bourdeaux, ditto Fraithforton the Main Nladrid f, i, :i f ifte e Iso c it; Cadiz Bilhoa 3B. Seville? Gibraltar Barcelona Leghorn 47 -Venice, Genoa . ... ice, Ital. Liv. 25 5 ° Malta... ..5v -Naples , 4Bi . 01 4 ' Palermo Lisbon . Oporto ter Rio Janeiro . Dublin... . ..,.. 10. .... Cork-- 10 per Cent. Agio nt. Agio uf the Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin 'sew DotiblOolli Silver, in Bar s ............. 5 4 COAL MARKET, 5EPTE1,.1.111;f1.044-g C:ol'er°l4' $ 1 s ; ll.lilt'. Price' Ali Ships sold. A ~s• A; n Sunderland 6 31 ................ 3 4 8 1: : 6 % 1 : t t )) - 40 ' 3. 6Y pfl BIRTH. Fa r bl3 On Thursday last, at his house in Green -street, the Lady of Edmund Antrobus, Esq. of a son. ,Nfie O lwo n rnß t a l sr ie iisl 3d inst. at Broills-g‘lrßoltveT,9)V.illiain flonst" fsel'uf , 3 "'bter cc , shire. if l e r - a s t t y r i e c e y t, yLeorilliodnot,i,EtLii ...101far,ss•,bseeeepocuo(tler 4rasty V C,,i Yesterday, at the New Church, St. Mary -le-bouete,r Jilio Hon, acid Rev. Edward Rice, Prebendary of Wl t s o i' l l (ti te Pepper, Esq. of Bigods, in the county of Esse" , o f 1 ,3 0 c second daughter of Magens Dorrien Magens , E sc l o 'i-e 13 , merwood Lodge, in the county of Sussex, a"d l'h ' AO' Right Hon. the Lord Dyzievor. f ;01 ' I'd , ' Lately at Paris, at the hotel of his Britannic IVA] t o /%, 3 0 bassador (Sir Charles Stewart), Count Louis Aug a c f lle; r os ander Pelletier de Molande to Mrs. Swift, w1 110 ,1, 3 t11.,,„;e1f Cordon Swift, Esq. of Lion's Den, county of " iier s wjf" , Count and'Comitess arrived on Tbursdayat Escu l , t f, ‘ : 1 ,3 Picie,,addeillyly,,Pietietrhie.iier_nwr•ayylet,aulßida,th, to meet some u ` 40' relations. 14 113'' of to Mrs. Pennington, widow Fsq•ZlvyCe°tior4lt,":l;';lsll;444-tti Antigua, and daughter of the late Major Hallano Regiment. V 01 • A 1 • 'l, • DIED. a n d :iti - On the 2d inst. at Lower 'Wanner, after 3 I° t Oir , illness, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the i r a . . , .. 3 t 1 0 0 Cornett, of the Hou. 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